THE LOVE LIGHTS

Display typeface · Version 1.000

Type anything. It comes out hand-cut.

Warming up the lights

Samples
Features

The character set

Tap a character to add it to the tester. Dashed ones are alternates; the tag says how to get them.

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Version 1.000 · 75 glyphs · 7 OpenType features · all capitals, lowercase keys type capitals too.

Desktop · Mac and Windows

OpenType

Download .otf 18 KB
  1. Mac: double-click the file, then choose Install in Font Book.
  2. Windows: right-click the file and choose Install.
  3. Restart any design app that was open, then pick The Love Lights from the font list.

Web · every modern browser

WOFF2

Download .woff2 11 KB 
@font-face {
  font-family: "The Love Lights";
  src: url("TheLoveLights-Regular.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}
h1 { font-family: "The Love Lights", Impact, sans-serif; }

Where the features live

Contextual
On by default. A letter that repeats switches to its alternate, so LL and OO never look copy-pasted.
Stylistic sets 1 to 3
Set 1 swaps in every first alternate, set 2 the second A and E, set 3 the dotted i. In Figma, Illustrator and InDesign look under OpenType or Stylistic sets.
Swash
S becomes the swash S, its tail sweeping back under the letters before it.
Glyph panel
Every alternate, including the second swash S and the second dotted i, can be picked one at a time.

Traced from a vintage alphabet sheet.

The lettering in The Love Lights wordmark came from a found alphabet sheet. It was traced into 43 shapes, doubled letters became alternates, and the numbers and punctuation the sheet never had were drawn to match. Made for The Love Lights, Saturdays at Captain Blacks on Capitol Hill, Seattle.

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